Four Antarctic Arts Fellows Announced

A
poet, a painter, a jeweller and a furniture maker are the
2004/05 Antarctic Arts Fellows who will travel to Antarctica
as a group early in December 2004 through Antarctica New
Zealand's Arts, Education and Media programme.

The Artists
to Antarctica programme is a joint initiative between
Antarctica New Zealand and Creative New Zealand, and selects
artists who are either prominent in their field or who are
top emerging artists.

"This scheme gives New Zealand
artists a rare opportunity to explore Antarctica, refresh
their spirit and gain the inspiration while living at Scott
Base for some unique, creative work," said Antarctica New
Zealand CEO Lou Sanson.

Creative New Zealand also places
great value on its partnership with Antarctica New
Zealand.

"Antarctica's unique environment captures the
imagination of artists," Creative New Zealand Chief
Executive Elizabeth Kerr says. "Artists who have taken this
journey have been deeply affected by the experience and have
created wonderful, innovative work on their return from the
ice."

This year Bernadette Hall and Kathryn Madill,
prominent award winning poet and artist, plan to produce an
illustrated book and a series of exhibitions based on their
Antarctic experiences. Hall's prose and Madill's delicate
imagery were linked together previously in Settler Dreaming,
a collaborative work short-listed for the Tasmania Pacific
Poetry Award. Kirsten Haydon, the first jeweller/fine
metal artist to visit Antarctica through any artist's
programme, will create a collection of commemorative
jewellery and objects relating to landscape, flora and
fauna. Kirsten has a growing international reputation,
exhibiting in the Talente 2000 in Munich, and is currently
showing at the Dowse Art Gallery in Lower Hutt.
Contemporary furniture designer/maker, David Trubridge
will also visit Antarctica this season. He was meant to go
last year but broke his leg, so his visit has been
rescheduled. David's interest lies in the history of polar
exploration and he plans to develop a series of works based
around the theme 'Structures for Survival'.

For further
information please contact:

Background notes:

The
Artists to Antarctica programme is a partnership between
Antarctica New Zealand and Creative New Zealand, which began
in 1997.

It aims to fulfill four separate yet related
aims:

1. To increase public awareness of:

-
Antarctica and its national and global importance-
The relationship between arts and science-
Antarctica New Zealand- Creative New
Zealand- Individual artists.

2. To develop
the individual's potential and make an impression on an
artist's work over time.

3. To develop a major
Antarctic collection for New Zealand.

4. To provide
otherwise unlikely networking and collaborative art and
literature projects between diverse artists and artistic
mediums and between scientists and artists in a variety of
fields.

The programme aims to cater over time for a wide
variety of artistic styles and audiences that reflect the
diversity of Antarctica.

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